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Boris Tzentziper was born in the village of Dobre, near Nikolaev, in 1923. He fought in the Red Army on the Eastern front in a battalion with 12 different nationalities.

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We interviewed Tzentziper in Mykolayiv in 2008 and he honored us with a kind of song that mourns the tragic fate of the Jewish people. Although he characterized the song as one of his own, it resembles another popular song that can be found in Beregovsky's collection of 1934. It appears that almost one stanza and part of the melody of Tzentziper's song were borrowed from there (text).

I will put up a small ladder to heaven.I will climb to Godto ask him one or two things:Why don't the Jews have a place anywhere.And I will tell Him:that the Jews shed so much blood.He should consider thisand make sure that the Jews live well.In addition, I will ask from Him:Anyone who doesn't like the JewsHe should throw into a pit.